And I love blowhard bloggers who paint everyone with the "lefty liberal" brush who doesn't subscribe to every tenant of their knee-jerk reactionary agenda and are too illiterate to realize that I have no personal grudge against your glorious leader, Leon Drolet, as I've expressed my personal affection for him here and here (and defended him against liberals here).

After I described Leon as a Flying Monkey for the Wicked Witch of Notaxistan in my allegorical column on the Wizard of Oz (Gov. Jennifer Granholm was Dorothy, Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop was the Tinman, Dillon was the Cowardly Lion, House Minority Leader Craig DeRoche was Scarecrow and Senate Minority Leader Mark Schauer was Toto), he proudly claimed the Flying Monkey label as his own. I thanked him for having a sense of humor, which I wish he'd loan out to Mr. Schauer, who remains unamused.

As usual, my esteemed critics missed the point of my column, which critiqued the media for giving Leon too much ink about his inevitable victory (just like Hillary Clinton, eh?) Evidently, it's our job to be completely gullible and write paeans to Leon, for this was a valiant effort.

Oh, sweethearts, it's time for a reality check.

Dillon (D-Redford Township) is still speaker and he's plotting to raise your taxes right now. Actually, Andy's a grownup, so he's just doing his job, which is what he did last year when he cast votes to hike taxes and cut programs. Feel free to disagree with him. I do on a number of issues, like the Capital Outlay budget, Blue Cross/Blue Shield reforms and Wayne State University funding. Vote against him if you're in his district this November. But recalling someone over one issue is a temper tantrum.

And take a little personal responsibility, people. Isn't that what conservatives are supposed to do? Drolet is either grossly incompetent or guilty of fraud. Take your pick. Either way, those aren't good choices.

He spent more than $100,000 of your money and turned in paperwork to the Secretary of State a third grader could have completed better. So either he's a piss-poor manager who delegated way too much responsibility to charlatan firms or he willfully engaged in forging signatures and hiring out-of-district petitioners, including at least one parolee. I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt and go with the former. But I wouldn't hire him to do anything, even mayor of Breezewood, Pa.

So as for the disciples of Drolet and Mr. Perks, whine about the media all you want. Shake your fist at the night sky about the unfairness of at all. When Andy Dillon walks up to the dais, burst into tears.

He beat you, boys and girls. This is a victory for sanity in government. Get over it.